Maybe you don’t want others to know the conversations you’ve had with Alexa throughout the day. Fortunately, two new Echo privacy features make it easier to erase your voice history, once and for all.
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How to Drop in on All Your Echo Speakers at Once
You can now drop in on all your Echo speakers at the same time.
How to Meditate with Alexa on Your Amazon Echo
Feeling more stressed out while stuck inside during the COVID-19 quarantine? Alexa may be able to help you find some peace of mind through a range of meditation skills.
How To Let You Know When Alexa and Google Assistant Start and Stop Listening
You can set your Amazon Echo and Google Home or Nest devices to give you audio cues when they start and stop listening for commands.
What Do Alexa Ring Colors Mean?
Amazon Echo devices are known for their distinct Alexa ring colors. These look very cool in the dark, but their purpose expands beyond cool aesthetics.
How To Make Amazon Echo Play a Sound When You Say “Alexa”
The Amazon Echo lights up whenever it’s activated, but if yours isn’t within your line of sight, you can enable an audible tone instead. Here’s how.
How To Use Amazon’s Echo Smart Speaker without Giving Up Your Privacy
2018 saw a nearly doubling of the percentage (41%) of households that have some form of voice-activated speaker, with the vast majority being Amazon’s Echo.
How to Use Amazon Echo as an Intercom
If you have more than one Echo, you can turn two Echos into an in-home intercom system. And even if you don’t have two devices, you can still use this feature with the Alexa app for mobile devices.
This Alexa Skill Wants to Help You Scare Burglars Away
A new skill for Amazon’s digital assistant Alexa could help Amazon Echo speakers in keeping potential burglars away from empty homes while you are out.
Alexa Now tells you the hours and Phone Numbers of Local Businesses
Depending on your region, you can now ask your Amazon Echo for information about the closest business and get the hours, thanks to Amazon’s recent partnership with Yext, a company that’s supplying the tech giant with business data aggregated from Google and Facebook, as well as Apple’s Siri assistant, according to Bloomberg. Since 2015, Amazon has offered similar information through Yelp, and the information pulled from the review site is what allowed people to use their Amazon speakers to, for example, find the most popular restaurants in their area. The data from Yext is pulled directly from businesses that partner with the platform, like T-Mobile, and Rite Aid, who work with Yext to keep their data up to date.
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